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Xcode has always been free, until it was temporarily paid ($5!) for some odd reason during the 10.6 to 10.7 transition (I think it was a test of the Mac App Sto
by cpr 15y ago
Xcode has always been free, until it was temporarily paid ($5!) for some odd reason during the 10.6 to 10.7 transition (I think it was a test of the Mac App Store, actually). So don't count that against Mac OS X.
There's also a GCC-for-Mac OS X distribution now at only a few hundred MB.
And the whole Clang suite is available as a separate download as well.
So there are lots of truly OSS solutions for developing on OS X.
- alecbenzer 15y agoI think I read somewhere that the Xcode compiler is actually clang by default, right, not gcc? (not that I mind, I actually might prefer clang, just curious) and link for GCC-for-Mac OS X? I looked around a while ago but couldn't find anything that said: "here, do this, and then you'll have gcc w/o having to pay or needing a dev account or anything"